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Arriviste
184 pages, Hardcover
First published October 16, 2007
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Susan Finlay
11 books15 followersSusan Finlay is the author of three poetry pamphlets and five novels, which have been critically acclaimed in the Times Literary Supplement, The Paris Review, Art Review, Elle, and The Huffington Post among others.
Her short texts and poems have been included in group exhibitions and performances at the Royal Academy of Arts, the Whitechapel Gallery, and Camden Arts Centre in London, and published in magazines such as Worms, MAP, POETRY, and The Stinging Fly.
Collaborative projects include the Coelacanth Press, with whom she co-edited four issues of their bi-annual journal; the radio series Documents; The Brexit Chronicles podcast; and the artists and writers' organ Jour Mal Jour Nal.
In 2016 she co-curated Inland Far, an exhibition inspired by Herbert Read's only novel and its relationship to Jung at the Herbert Read Gallery in Canterbury, and in 2018 Isadora, a combination of text, sound, and film pieces based around the concept of a European salon at MoHA, Austin.
Residencies include The Troy Town Art Pottery in London, Unlisted in Austin, the Freud Museum in London, and Callie's in Berlin.
She lives in the UK and Berlin.
Her short texts and poems have been included in group exhibitions and performances at the Royal Academy of Arts, the Whitechapel Gallery, and Camden Arts Centre in London, and published in magazines such as Worms, MAP, POETRY, and The Stinging Fly.
Collaborative projects include the Coelacanth Press, with whom she co-edited four issues of their bi-annual journal; the radio series Documents; The Brexit Chronicles podcast; and the artists and writers' organ Jour Mal Jour Nal.
In 2016 she co-curated Inland Far, an exhibition inspired by Herbert Read's only novel and its relationship to Jung at the Herbert Read Gallery in Canterbury, and in 2018 Isadora, a combination of text, sound, and film pieces based around the concept of a European salon at MoHA, Austin.
Residencies include The Troy Town Art Pottery in London, Unlisted in Austin, the Freud Museum in London, and Callie's in Berlin.
She lives in the UK and Berlin.
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December 28, 2011
Brilliant funny/sad/real life read, maybe peculiar to me as I know the "ficticious" characters well.
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